Excerpt from On Professor Rossi's Publication of South-Coptic Texts: A Paper Read Before the Royal Irish Academy, May 8, 1893 But how could the imperfect tense nancite be rendered by his preterite fecero, how could mpow, to-day be used with a preterite, and how could the absolute verb eire appear without its object and the connexive particle These are three stumbling-blocks, which should have forced him to see that he should have had himow, them: and not mpow, in waste giorno. If his papyrus has the latter, it is simply ...
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Excerpt from On Professor Rossi's Publication of South-Coptic Texts: A Paper Read Before the Royal Irish Academy, May 8, 1893 But how could the imperfect tense nancite be rendered by his preterite fecero, how could mpow, to-day be used with a preterite, and how could the absolute verb eire appear without its object and the connexive particle These are three stumbling-blocks, which should have forced him to see that he should have had himow, them: and not mpow, in waste giorno. If his papyrus has the latter, it is simply wrong and impossible, and should have been emended. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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